No ballet film is more
beloved than The Red Shoes. Created by Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger, starring prima ballerina Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes was
that rare thing: a hit film created by true artists, dancers, composers
and one of the greatest French couturiers of the 20th Century, Jacques
Fath. This is the story of the creation of the film, how the team came
together and what became of them. There is a special focus on Jacques Fath. In the 1940s, Fath was the equal of Dior and Balmain, some say the
greatest of them. Only Fath took America by storm and designed lines for
the best department stores. His love of the American woman inspired a look
that was dubbed "wearable glamour", and Fath brought it back to the
runways of France. Fath's costumes for The Red Shoes are extraordinary and
more, they are contemporary. His vision was unique, but it was lost when
he died a young man in 1954.